Eclectica Contemporary2026-08-20T14:20:00+02:00
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ECLECTICA CONTEMPORARY

Eclectica Contemporary is a Cape Town–based gallery dedicated to contemporary artistic practices from Africa and its diaspora.

The gallery presents a dynamic program of emerging and established artists and has participated in leading international art fairs. Artists represented by the gallery have participated in major international biennials and their works are held in significant institutional collections including the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, the Rupert Museum, and the Iziko South African National Gallery, as well as major international foundations and private collections.

Through exhibitions, international presentations, and collaborations with curators and institutions, Eclectica Contemporary contributes to the global discourse surrounding contemporary African art.

EXHIBITIONS

Controlled Rupture

Presented as part of HEAT Festival, Lars Fischedick's solo exhibition Controlled Rupture explores the dynamic relationship between precision and disruption. Through carved timber, resin, and metal, the exhibition reveals the hidden forces within material, where geometry, texture, and transformation converge in powerful sculptural works.

All the Places Inside of Me

Presented as part of HEAT Festival, Jasirah Sayed's solo exhibition explores memory, identity, and cultural inheritance through suspended tapestries, sculptural canvases, and layered collage panels. Drawing on the symbolic language of the Persian garden, the exhibition invites viewers into contemplative spaces where personal and collective histories unfold through material, memory, and transformation.

Between Memory and Migration

Between Memory and Migration brings together the works of Hussein Salim and Mimouni El Houssaïne in an exploration of identity, memory, and belonging. Through layered symbols, calligraphic gestures, and poetic abstraction, both artists reflect on migration as a journey through space, memory, and imagination, transforming personal histories into universal narratives of displacement, longing, and return.

After The First Look

After the First Look revisits a selection of portraits beyond their first encounter, asking how perception shifts over time. Removed from the contexts that first shaped their reception, these works invite a slower, more critical form of looking, one that unsettles assumptions around identity, value, and visibility. Moving between presence and surface, recognition and doubt, the exhibition reflects on how meaning is never fixed, and how what we see changes as we do.

INSIGHTS

Not All Lives Are Legible | A Look Back in 2026 | Notes from the Director

Not All Lives Are Legible looks back on three exhibitions, Lost Souls, The Repenters, and Darkness Rising, reflecting on how each engaged with the construction of the “other” within political and cultural systems. Moving from absence to misinterpretation to self-definition, Director Shamiela Tyer revisits questions of visibility, representation, and narrative control that remain deeply relevant today.

Loyiso Mkize | A Nation Still Reckoning with Winnie | Notes from the Director

Notes on the creation of an artwork that would find it's way into becoming the cover image of the Netflix documentary "The Trials of Winnie Mandela" - Shamiela Tyer reflects on Loyiso Mkize's artistic process of capturing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's essence, in relation to the complexities of her life in the public eye as a prolific political figure.

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